Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff a.k.a the Scarlet Witch. Photo: Disney/Artwork: Roslyn Talusan
Trauma survivors deserve complex heroes that make us feel seen in our justifiable rage, and stories that encourage us to hold onto hope and love, even in our darkest moments. Wanda Maximoff has given us a multifaceted hero who battles complex and compounded trauma and grief as much as she dukes it out against extraterrestrial invaders. She is not only a survivor of trauma, but a heroine forged in its hottest fires. When we pick up where her story left off in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, stylishly directed by Sam Raimi of OG Spider-Man trilogy acclaim, Wanda’s role as the central antagonist unceremoniously dumps her back into the Unstable Powered Woman trope.
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